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A huge fence still wraps around the front of the federal courthouse, and the police headquarters across the street is still boarded up. LEVINSON: You know, there are corners of downtown where there's still evidence of protests. But can you give us a sense of what downtown feels like right now for you? GARCIA-NAVARRO: We heard from a business owner there, and that's, of course, just one viewpoint. JONATHAN LEVINSON, BYLINE: Good morning, Lulu. He's been covering the Portland protests from the start. GARCIA-NAVARRO: To get more context, I'm joined now by reporter Jonathan Levinson of Oregon Public Broadcasting. We are at a turning point, and our city leaders need to stand up and do what they need to do to fix this unrest and to bring order back to Portland. Some of them have decided that they're sticking it out to see what happens. And I think that's the question that all of my neighbors have had to make this year. MCLAIN: Do I want to stay? That's the question. And she wants help from a local government that she feels has dropped the ball. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Her salon has been broken into multiple times, most recently last month. Late at night, trying to live and work in an area with smoke, and yelling, and graffiti and fires was difficult.
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MCLAIN: Although I can get behind people looking for change and equality, the problem was we saw 150 nights of it. She says her business has been strained by COVID restrictions, a rise in the number of unhoused people around her business and those protests, which have since died down. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Suzanne McLain is the owner of Pulse Salon and Day Spa in downtown Portland. SUZANNE MCLAIN: Because of the civil unrest, a lot of individuals that would normally come down and eat and shop and enjoy our beautiful city are not coming down. But unlike in other cities, those protests stretched on for nearly 200 days, with some demonstrations resulting in violence and vandalism. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Like in cities across the country, people took to the streets of Portland after the murder of George Floyd, calling for racial justice and police reform. And we ask this question, is Portland over? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: Starting tonight and all this week, we're taking an in-depth look at the issues plaguing our city. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: After nightfall, gunshots in the streets. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Tonight marks the hundredth straight day of street protests in Portland, Ore. In the past year, Portland, Ore., has been making headlines like this.